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The bill, which revises best practices for supply chain risk management, passed the House today.
U.S. Rep. Joe Neguse stopped by Breckenridge Friday, May 6, to visit a planned workforce housing site along with Summit County and Breckenridge officials. The “Justice Center parcel project,” as town officials have unofficially dubbed it, will provide the town with 52 workforce housing units.
“It’s exciting,” Neguse said. “Kudos to the county leadership, (town) leadership and local community that has the foresight to address this acute housing affordability crisis.”
Colorado Mountain College celebrated graduation for over 100 students across the Breckenridge and Dillon campuses on Friday.
Hundreds of family members and friends gathered at the Breckenridge Riverwalk Center for the main graduation, and about 50 attended the nursing graduation at the Breckenridge campus. This marked the first graduation to allow an unlimited number of in-person guests since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic .
The funding request calls for a language inclusion to increase firefighter pay and benefits to reflect the qualifications of our federal wildland firefighters and hazards and risks they face.
Washington D.C.— Today, Congressman Joe Neguse led a letter to House Appropriations Committee leadership urging them to raise federal wildland firefighter pay and ensure essential benefits to these highly skilled workers.
View his opening remarks HERE.
U.S. Rep. Joe Neguse, along with several House colleagues, is urging Congress to raise the pay for federal wildland firefighters as they battle tinder-dry conditions across the country, particularly in the West.
In Colorado, experts say the conditions have cranked up April's fire risk to what the state would normally see in the summer.
Washington, D.C.— Today, Congressman Joe Neguse, joined by six members of Congress, led a letter to House Appropriations Committee leadership urging them to include $25 million for a pilot program for open textbooks in fiscal year 2023. The letter supports funding for the continuation of the Department of Education’s Open Textbooks pilot program, which has provided college students across the country with a more affordable alternative to traditional textbooks.
Washington, D.C. – Today, Congressman Joe Neguse, alongside Representatives McEachin and Matsui, led a group of 40 House Members in unveiling a resolution to honor Earth Day and reaffirm the importance of protecting and preserving our planet.
Lafayette, CO – Today, Friday April 22, 2022, Congressman Joe Neguse, Chair of the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands and member of the Select Committee on the Climate Crisis, and U.S. Senator Michael Bennet, submitted a joint letter to House and Senate Appropriations leadership urging them to adopt a comprehensive National Strategy on Climate Preparedness that prioritizes investments in mitigation and climate adaptation across all Fiscal Year 2023 Appropriations Subcommittees.